Editing Occurrence Border (section)

=== The Tribals in Hydroponics ===
So at some point the forward hydroponics bays were having trouble and needed constant low-level maintenance to keep the crops growing. This problem was solved by more or less enslaving a bunch of tribals, throwing them in there, and making it their job. After the initial period of unrest, the actual enslavement part sort of fell by the wayside and a sort of symbiotic tribal community has more or less flourished in the massive bay.

They keep the plants growing, and make sure food gets into the output area on schedule. In exchange no one bothers them and they live a rather uncomplicated life in the bay. There's something like two hundred of them, and the population is held steady by individuals and groups occasionally splitting off to join the ship's official crew or settle on a world. There's a fair amount of story buried in there, especially after the bay next to them was filled with krootoids and their duties were expanded to hunting down escapees from it, but that's the gist of it.

During the events of Discount Spaceship, the Tribals' bay was exposed to the warp and had to be abandoned. A significant percentage of them died during the exodus, but the majority survived to resettle in a newer bay towards the middle of the ship. They've resumed their role of food providers to the ship, and everything is more or less back to as-normal-as-it-gets on the Occurrence Border. 

The end result of all this, aside from there being a bay in midships full of Tribals with a religion based around growing food and feeding it to the Emperor, is that the Occurrence Border is actually very well provisioned, and a small but significant portion of the ship's armsmen are of Tribal descent. They are best left un-fucked with, as their knowledge of the ship is second only to the Engineers, and it's their HOME damnit. A notable addition to their ranks is the former Stationmaster of a refueling station that the Occurrence Border requisitioned the entirety of for resupply and repair, who after trying to deal directly with the ship's Machine Mob and having his life rethought for himself ended up finding a peaceful life helping the Tribals run hydroponics.